Microsoft Professional Advisory Services is a support option that provides short-term, proactive, consultative support beyond break-fix product maintenance needs. This includes working with the same technician for assistance with issues like product migration, code review, or new program development and is a remote, phone-based support option. This service is typically used for shorter engagements, and is designed for developers and IT professionals who do not require the traditional onsite consulting or sustained account management services that are available from other Microsoft support options.

For additional information on Microsoft Advisory Services, including on how to engage, refer to this Microsoft web page:

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/AdvisoryService (http://support.microsoft.com/gp/AdvisoryService)

This Advisory Services scenario is designed to assist customers who need developer support assistance to programmatically administer IIS using technologies such as ADSI, WMI, ABO, System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry class or System.Web.Administration API and to address the questions they have encountered in their development process.

In this scenario, our team will help provide simple samples to customers on how to programmatically administer IIS using any of the available technologies (ADSI, WMI, ABO, System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry class or System.Web.Administration API).

The samples can be script based (VBScript or Jscript) or C++ for ADSI, WMI or ABO and .Net framework based language (C# or VB.Net) for System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry class or System.Web.Administration API.

We will cover simple scenarios such as querying and setting metabase/ configuration entries for IIS which will help the customers understand the configuration architecture.

Our team can only provide simple samples, rather than a full blown solution to cover each and every aspect of the end goal/solution.

Statement of Work for this Scenario

Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Windows 2008 R2

Included with Scope

1. What operating system and the IIS version does the customer need assistance with?
2. What technology does the customer need help with to programmatically configure IIS [The available options are ADSI, WMI, System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry, ABO, System.Web.Administration]
3. Does the customer have any previous experience with the IIS Metabase/ IIS Configuration
4. Does the customer have any preference to the programming language being used? [VBScript, JScript, C, C++, C#, VB.Net]
5. For managed code/ C++ solution, has the customer used the Visual Studio environment before
6. What operation does the customer need to primarily focus on? Examples are: Creation/deletion of virtual directories/ applications and getting/setting IIS Metabase/Configuration properties.
7. For IIS 7.0/7.5, does the customer use a shared hosting environment?

Out of Scope

Implementing an end-to-end solution

Below is a list of self-help resources for this scenario. Microsoft Support Engineers may also use these resources during an Advisory Services engagement.

IIS Programmatic Administration SDK

Using IIS Programmatic AdministrationIIS 7 Configuration referenceUsing IIS 7 Configuration editor to create simple scripts/code IIS 6 Resource Kit tools [contains Metabase Explorer to understand the IIS keys]